> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching.
That's not the kind of experience companies look for though. Do you have a degree? How much time have you spent working for other companies? That's all that matters to them.
The production of works that use AI will drop, while the cost to produce higher quality works - works that don't use AI - will remain the same. All we'll get is more AI slop.
Why presuppose that high quality works can't be produced with the help of (near future) AI tooling? Just because you can produce slop with AI doesn't mean that you have to.
I'm not convinced LLMs are the road towards Minds, and I'm pretty sure the Culture would think we're a bit of a mess (I'm pretty sure they literally did in one of the final books), but who knows maybe I'm wrong!
If AI can learn "better and faster" than humans, then why didn't AI companies just pay for a couple of books to train their AIs on, just like people do?
Maybe because AI is ultimately nothing but a complicated compression algorithm, and people should really, really stop anthropomorphizing it.
That's not the kind of experience companies look for though. Do you have a degree? How much time have you spent working for other companies? That's all that matters to them.